Not long after a certain bank heist took place in downtown Tokyo, things in the ECFH are... well, not quite so quiet.

There's an array of grunting and limping footsteps thumping about through the hallways.

This, as it turns out, is sourced pretty quickly to one (1) Alexis, shuffling his way through towards the kitchen. With red-stained clothes, an array of bandages along his head and an improvised sling holding up his otherwise incredibly limp left arm.

Because *of course* he just can't possibly be having a normal day for once in his life, can he?

There's a knock on the front door, it's a gentle quick knock, nothing out of the ordinary. On the other side of the door is a girl, probably not quite a teenager yet. Hoshi seems a little nervous, but she's accompanied by a pair of yellow, five-pointed stars that float near her head. One is wearing a nurse's outfit, the other has no outfit but ineffectively hides behind her head, peeking out above and seemingly forgetting that its got a big point that makes the peeking way obvious.

Alexis comes to a stop when he comes face to face with... a Zombie-Slaying Venus. He just *stares* at her, distinctly unamused.

"... I swear, if you try to shoot me in the brain like some dime a dozen zombie," he mutters. "I will straight up toss you off the balcony with my good hand." He is very much not in the mood, apparently.

"I need some more food please and thank you," he grumbles after, as he shuffles his way on even further towards the kitchen-- nevermind that Rashmi basically brought him ALL THE FOOD earlier. Literally all of the food.

He ends up settling to rifling through the fridge with his non-messed-up arm just as Minako opens the front door, so he's not immediately aware of just who it is that has come to visit.

The star is physical enough to poke, might leave a little bit of pure yellow on Minako's finger. It'll fade within an hour, though. "Hi. I'm Hoshi Kogane and I heard one of the people who helped fight Rivenjerk might need a bit of patching up." She introduces herself, the star that's dressed like a nurse kind of bops up and down to emphasize that. "Who are you?"

Minako shakes her finger. "I hope that comes off." she says. She eyes Hoshi. "I'm Minako Aino." she says. "You must mean the zombie in the kitchen." she says conspiratorily into Hoshi's ear. "He's in there." she says.

"Asclepius has been running a little late to do the heal thing but that's my fault because I have him on a case of cars being possessed around the city here or there." she says with a series of nods.

"Come on in!" she says, as she makes sure the door is closed behind Hoshi.

"I am not a zombie!!" Alex's voice immediately echoes from the direction of the kitchen. It's not quite as boomy as that of Stahlritter's Hoshi might remember hearing during the whole bank incident.

When the Star-girl does come along into the kitchen area, she will find the broken-up Alex very stubbornly on his feet... and with some quickly gobbled-together bacon and ham sandwich halfway-shoved into his mouth. And peeking back towards her while it's still only mostly in there.

Cue a mumbled sound that VAGUELY sounds like a 'hello'. Except said with a mouthful of ham and bacon.

"It should." Hoshi answers Minako and moves on towards the not-a-zombie, "It's fine. I volunteer in a hospital, this is basically the same thing." She then pulls out her yellow chroma crystal and transforms into prism keeper yellow, "For best results I'm going to need to replace those bandages, I can wait until you're done eating, but you do need to sit down." Hands on hips and stern voiced as she looks up, way up, at Alexis.

When Hoshi transforms, Alexis' eyebrows lift visibly upwards a bit, and he bites down hard on the sandwich to vacuum the one half of it down his throat while his good hand keeps it from falling down after the seperation.

"You're that girl then," he observes, with a sage nod of his head. "It's looks worse than it is, honestly. What about you, though?" HE tilts his head. "I was a bit too busy giving the Riventon egghead a concussion to see what happened with the rest of you. He was saying some nasty nonsense either way." ... Here he is standing with several broken bones and a red-stained left arm, and *that* is what he's asking about first?

"I'm Prism Keeper Yellow." She does in fact clarify, the miniature galaxy she holds in her hand quite distinctly the same, though she looks a good few years younger than she did in that fight. She ignores Alexis claiming it looks worse than it is, because even if it does that still leaves a lot of room for badness, "I'm fine. Rivenjerk is not news, the frost queen was though." She waits for Alexis to finish eating.

"Prism Keeper Yellow," Alex repeats after Hoshi, green eyes verring down to curiously take in the miniature galaxy within the girl's hands with obvious fascination. He shoves the rest of the sandwich down his gullet in the meantime, swallowing it all in nearly an instant again. "Mmh-- I am Alex. Or Stahlritter. Whichever you prefer now, but when I'm in armor, it's definitely Stahlritter."

Despite how insistent he is on his well-being, he *does* still move along to sit himself down on the nearest chair, somehow managing to keep himself more or less upright despite his current state. "Well. I'm glad you guys got out alright."

"Nice to meet you, Alex." And Hoshi pulls out a chair so she can reach Alexis' head to begin removing the bandages, pulling out a bit of medical alcohol to clean the wounds there, then plucking a pair of stars from that miniature galaxy, which immediately grow to become five-pointed yellow stars which she quickly applies to the area previously bandaged. There's a soothing, healing energy embedded in those stars. Afterwards, she bandages Alexis head back up. "Arm next. Anywhere else that's hurt?"

"Nothing major, I think," Alex claims. "Cuts and bruises-- some dark energy slipped in, but Gull said it should just fade with rest. My armor soaked up most of that." He *says* that, but he probably has some small fractures in his ribs too.

... The arm is definitely the worst off, though. Shredded up and nearly every single bone in it broken up. He did blast it himself with the equivalent of a magical claymore mine from point blank..

"Most of that." Hoshi repeats with a tone of clear skepticism. She gets to work on the arm next though, carefully making sure not to damage anything, and applying four star bandages before putting everything back to like it was, and then another star bandage on the hand. Next, she just swings her miniature galaxy and a couple stars fly off to disappear beneath Alexis' shirt and attach themselves there. "This should help. You should get someone else to look at it too, but it's a start."

"Most of it," Alex repeats in insistent protest at Hoshi-- right before there's suddenly stars slipping under his shirt, and his body actually jumps in place with a quiet yelp of surprise. "That tickles!"

Minako's return draws his eye over towards her, and... his jaw sort of slacks for a moment to leave his mouth gaping slightly with his stare. "... First of all, what in the ever-loving heck is an Ascy... whatever that thing you said was, and-- I am *almost positive* that is not how pies and sandwiches work. At all."

"Yeah. That's what we do." Hoshi answers Minako, dropping back out of henshin when she gets done, tucking her chroma crystal away safely. She giggles at the massive sandwich and the question about pie, "I'm sure you can. Don't know if it tastes good, pretty sure people will look at you funny."

"But is it really a pie *or* a sandwich then at all?" Alex points out to Hoshi. "I mean, just think about the logistics of it and all..."

He instinctively leans back just a bit when Minako leans forward, even if the distance between the two isn't that close, his eyes blinking slowly. Sweatdrop. "Wh-... n-... no, no trains or possessed cars or whatever. The guy you guys call Riventon pulled a bank heist to get some magic gem or something out of their deposit boxes. He blasted me and I beat him up for his trouble."

...He's still instinctively leaning further backwards, just as sheer reeaction to Minako's presence, apparently. Could be he's in a weird way intimidated by the girl.

"Was it dumb, though? Sounds clever, maybe a bit mean, but clever." Hoshi responds to the batman thing. She tries to keep track of what Minako is calling Asclepius, and fails so settles on, "Do I know Ascii?" She doesn't, but she has trouble keeping track of all the people she knows, "And you can have a pie sandwich if you really believe in it, I'm sure."

Minako Aino arches her brows a bit. "Riventon did something?" she asks. "When?" she asks. "Was there some Sailor Senshi like person helping him out?" she asks.

She crosses her arms. "Watch out for that jerk. People that weild dark energy likes that are always bad news." she says, narrowing her eyes at Alexis. Perhaps Alexis knows what else she is referencing.

She eyes Hoshi. "It's clever! But I promised I wouldn't hide anything like that ever again." she says. "Also I don't know if you do!" she says with a smile at the younger girl.

"There was this ice queen who was helping him out, but she didn't look a senshi." Hoshi elides over the fact that she may have accidentally provoked said 'ice queen' to get involved. "She was really into 'nothing matters, just give up on life' nonsense."

Minako Aino makes a mental note. "Hrm... doesn't sound like the one I'm thinking of then." she says as she crosses her arms. "I should still follow up that thread though." she says. "Or get Ace on it." she says.

"But I should probably do my own legwork for a bit." she says, as she eyes Alexis. She says nothing else, except.

Arty is being a jerk and tattling on her incoming appearance apparently! She arrives, via dramatic balcony leap. A dramatic unhenshin- and an even more dramatic tumble roll in as she spreads her hands out. "Ha!" she says. "If I was a ninja you'd be stabbed, Ace~" she says.

"Also I heard Arty tattle on me so no fair anyways." she says as she crosses her arms against her chest.

Minako Aino stares back at Alexis. "Uh-huh. There's a lot of possesed everything." she says. "But more importantly." she says. "It's like a GOOD Buddy cop movie." she says. "I prefer Ace rather than Asclepius for a name." she asides. Yes. She can pronounce it.

She watches Asclepius work. "Mamoru is better at that stuff. But Asclepius' healing works good for this kind of stuff." she says.

"So like when I met Daisuke first? It was during this whole mess? and we didn't know who he was or who we could trust? So I had him prove he's a healer by dislocating my shoulder and healing it." she says.

Minako Aino gives a wide and cheesy grin. "The more the merrier, but we need to narrow it down where this is coming from. Since the 'attacks' happen seperatly it's probably one entity doing garbage." she says.

"Anyways. Artemis needs to be fed tuna and then mom wants to yell at me more about how I'm gonna turn out like my dad!" she says.

Not really. That's just any day ending in 'Y' for her.

She walks to the balcony. "Also Acey~ You better practice that 52 card pick up~" she says before there's a flash of transformation and Sailor Venus leaps away. Hiya! \o/.